Finance Business Partner

Country: Netherlands
City:
Req ID: 524600
Job Type: Contract
Workplace Type: Onsite
Seniority Level: Associate

About Filoform

At Filoform, our purpose is to create innovative solutions that make the energy & telecommunications industry safer, more efficient, and more sustainable. We are a leading manufacturer of sealing and protection products, with a reputation for quality and reliability that spans decades. Based in the United Kingdom, Netherlands and Germany, our key values include stability, responsibility, and creativity. We believe that these values are essential to our success and are reflected in everything we do.

We are committed to providing stable, long-lasting solutions that meet the needs of our customers. Our products are designed to withstand the toughest conditions and provide reliable performance year after year.

We take our responsibility to our customers, our employees, and the environment seriously. We are committed to sustainable practices and always strive to minimize our impact on the planet. We are constantly pushing the boundaries of innovation, developing new products and solutions that help our customers work smarter, not harder. We believe that creativity is essential to staying ahead in a rapidly changing industry.

• Competitive salary
• Company pension contribution
• A range of healthcare options
• Competitive holidays, including Christmas shutdown
• Employee Committees for Health & Wellbeing and Inclusion & Diversity
• Engagement & Wellbeing initiatives
• Employee referral programme
• Enhanced Family friendly policies
• Career development opportunities across IPE and the wider CRH Group

• Produce clear variance analysis against budget and forecast, highlighting key drivers, trends, and risks.
• Partner with site and functional leaders to ensure financial performance is fully understood and actions are agreed.
• Own and maintain standard costing models, ensuring alignment with operational reality and production processes.
• Review and challenge material, labour and overhead variances, working closely with operations to identify root causes.
• Assist with the end-to-end preparation and delivery of monthly management accounts, ensuring timely, accurate and insightful reporting.
• Support the maintenance and review of intercompany transfer pricing, ensuring consistency, accuracy and compliance with group policies.
• Act as a trusted commercial advisor, providing financial insight to support pricing decisions, quotations and margin improvement initiatives.
• Analyse product, customer and contract profitability, identifying opportunities for margin enhancement and cost optimisation.
• Support new product introductions and operational changes with robust cost and profitability analysis.
• Prepare and present monthly performance reviews to site leadership teams, translating financial data into meaningful operational insight.
• Work collaboratively with manufacturing, supply chain and commercial teams to define and track key financial and operational KPIs.
• Drive a culture of financial ownership and accountability across manufacturing sites.
• Lead the development of annual budgets and rolling forecasts, ensuring assumptions are robust, aligned and clearly understood.
• Challenge assumptions and support budget holders to produce realistic and accountable plans.
• Identify financial risks and opportunities across the forecast horizon and support mitigation planning.
• Partner with site leadership to support continuous improvement, productivity and cost ‑ reduction initiatives.
• Support strategic initiatives such as capacity planning, capital investment, footprint optimisation and make/buy decisions.
• All other duties as deemed necessary by the Head of Finance.

• ACA, ACCA, CIMA Qualified or part qualified finalist level, or equivalent qualification.
• Relevant finance experience at Business Partner level, in manufacturing or distribution
• Prior experience of operating ERP systems.
• A collaborative team player.
• Self-motivated and proactive in overcoming challenges.
• Able to be structured and logical, whilst having the agility to respond to changing priorities.
• Strong management and performance accounting capability.
• Analytical and deadline driven.
• High level IT skills preferable.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

• Highly competitive salary package
• Comprehensive secondary benefits
• Significant contribution to your pension plan
• Excellent opportunities to develop and progress within the wider CRH Group